“I will not allow the National Education Association to be used by Donald Trump or Betsy DeVos,” she thundered at the 96th NEA Representative Assembly meeting in Boston. “I do not trust their motives . . . I see no reason to assume they will do what is best for our students and their families.”

Her actual gripe is that Trump & Co. want to give “students and their families” choices that don’t involve union-dominated schools.

Hmm: Not long ago she was charging that John King, President Barack Obama’s education secretary, was “destroying what it means to teach, what it means to learn” by backing efforts to measure teacher competence. That might lead to some NEA members (who happen to be bad teachers) losing their jobs.

The point being that the NEA isn’t out for the kids — but only for itself. (Same goes for the other main teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers.)

Teachers unions aren’t, and never have been, about the students. They spend tens of millions a year on lobbying and political work to protect their own power and their members’ jobs and perks. That’s it.